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S. FEGHHEIMER.

SHIRT AND NZEGKTIE PASTE-NEE.

No. 310,661 Patented Jan. 13, 1885 N. PETERS Photo Lnlvzgmphcn \Vnslumglun. D, c.

' UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

SIGMUND FEOHHEIMER, OF N EW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT AND NEC KTIE FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,661, dated January 18, 1885.

\ Apglicalion filed October 23, 1884. (X0 model) T0 all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, SIGMUND FEOHHEIMER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Combined Shirt and Necktie Fastener, of which the fol-' lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap, simple, and easily-applied clasp, of any desired ornamental configuration, the same being constructed to form a combined shirt and necktie fastener capable of being used both for closing and fastening the opening neck and bosom portions of a shirt and for receiving through it and holding; the ends of a necktie or scarf, arranged when in position to lie or fall down the center of the bosom of the shirt. By means of my improved device, constructed substantially as hereinafter described, I am enabled to dispense with studs or buttons for closing the shirt in front, and to provide the shirt with simple button holes or eyelets for the purpose, thusdoing away with a great annoyaneeas when, for instance, buttons are lost'from the shirt by washing or otherwise-and the device at the same time serving to form an ornamental clasp for the ends of the lie or scarf at the :neck, or at any number of fiXOtl. points down the bosom of the shirt, and to allow of said ends being entered or removed with the same facility as. an ordinary scarf-ring affords, thus virtually forming both a button substitute for shirts and a scarf ring'or clasp, and as such constituting a new and useful article of manu facturc. By means of this improved device the shirt, scarf or necktie, and fastener are all combined and connected to make of the whole one article.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a front view of a shirt with my improved device, under different ornamental forms or shapes, applied, and showing the ends of a necktie or scarf as partly inserted through said devices. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section upon a larger scale of the dc vice in one of the forms shown in Fig. 1 dctached, and Fig. 8 a back or inner face view edges of the face-piece and the inner faces of the hooks or fastenings.

Fig. 1 of the drawings shows three differ ent patterns of the clasp applied to the front of a shirt, A that is to say, a clasp, B, having its face-piece I) and end hooks or fastenings c 0 made of one and the same piece of sheet metal, such as is shown applied to se cure the neck portion of the shirt-the facepicce of said clasp being of ornamental or brooch-like configuration; a lower fastening or clasp, 13, having a face-piece, b, of bueklclike configuration, with its center bar extended and bent backward and inward to form op posite end hooks or fastenings, 0, that stand away from the back of the face-piece; and a still lower shell-like clasp, B, having its face I) supported and stiffened at its back by a band or strip soldered or otherwise secured to it, and arranged to extend across or along it, and bent at its ends to form the hooks c c, as more clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. egardless of the precise form or ornamental configuration of the clasp, however, the face piece or portion 1) is in every case of a widened or spread configuration, and the hooks c, which it is preferred to make blunt at their ends, are of a much narrower construction than theface piece, and are set back sufiicientl y from said face-piece to form or leave an open space, s, between it and them. 01 asps or fasteners thus constructed may not only be used to close and fasten or hook together the opening at the neck and down the bosom of the shirt by passing the hooks c of the clasp through eyelets or button-holes d in the shirt on opposite sides of said opening, but a scarf or nccktie, after having been passed round the neck and under the collar of the shirt, may have its falling or pendent ends secured in position by passing them through the space sin the clasp, between the hooks and back of the face-piece, with every freedom of adjustment as regards the tie, and allowing of the ready entry and removal of the ends thereof through the clasp, which not only holds the necktie in place between the front of the shirt and. back of the face piece or plate, but also fastens the edges of the shirt-bosom securely together.

This device essentially differs from a device for attaching neckties to collars, made of wire or sheet metal, having no enlarged or ornating of the necktie being drawn back and forth in a circular direction through them. It also essentially difi'ers from a mere garment supporter or fastener formed of a piece of wire or sheet metal the ends of which are bent 25 close or nearly close back upon itself, and the extremities of such bent portions bent outward to form V-shaped openings.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an improved article of manufacture, a shirt and necktie fastener made as herein shown and described, the same consisting of a face-piece provided with inwardly-bent end hooks or fastenings that stand away from the back of the face-plate, so as to leave space when applied to the shirt for the necktie, and hold the same in place between the front of the shirt and the back of the face plate or piece, while at the same time the. edges of the shirt-bosom are securely fastened, all as set forth.

SIGMUND FECHHEIMER. 

